Why then not go to radiación therapy as the sole mode of treatment?.
Prostate cancer basically is treated with a single modality opposed to breast cancer or other cancers where a
multimodality is the rule. It is not in the best interest of the patient and health costs to dare to do a radical surgery
in a patient where another single therapy can be more successful. I hope that other physician self interests do not
dictate the best courses of treatment..

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